Just heading in to another marathon run of site development.
While that is happening, in a few days, we'll give you a much nicer skin to work with.
I'll keep you posted ;)
Pat

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If you go to the beta site, you should be able to see all the sections in the pic below.
You must log in to see all sections.
Please do as much testing as you can there in the next few days. (As always, much appreciated.)

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Update*

- Gold members caught a few bugs on the beta site. Just one left to solve.
- Solving the above and installing new software took up the week window of time I had available.
- I'd like to re-write the intro part of the site for the new temporary skin. I'll try to do that before...
- Next unbroken time slot I have is this coming weekend. I'll aim to give you the new temporary skin then.

Thought I'd start a thread that listed Western Australian BIABrewer.info members and events while the site is still young. This way, if anyone is having a brew day they can post it here and/or PM other W.A. brewers easily. Also, general events such as comps, tastings, interstate visitors etc could be posted here so as we can all be kept up to date.

Here are the WA BIABrewers I am aware of to date (I've stopped adding names now but let me know if you want to be added to the list)...

1. NME
2....

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Today's the day :yum:

We have a few spare tickets. If anyone wants one, shoot me a PM :peace:

Hey all!
Anyone heading to GABS Melbourne this weekend?
I'm catching the redeye tonight in order to be there for Cooper's - so come seek me out (I will be the girl in the apron)!
I will be pouring delicious brews at both sessions daily.
:drink:
Oh, and if you see me, please call me Brucey!

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Great post thanks Sarah and great to have those beers in Freo on Wednesday and hear more details of your adventure!

And, a timely reminder about the Royal Show.

The Crafty Pint link you gave above, I only just read now. All members will find bits of it interesting and Aussies will find all of it interesting. Nice to see Balter XPA have that win - one of the few new beers I had in the last year that struck me immediately. Also, a lot of beers mentioned I have not heard of, let alone tried so...

Hey All,
Pat and I are planning a brew day on Sunday the 19th.
We are in East Fremantle, WA. If any of you are in the area and free, we'd love for you to join us!
We'll be doing a double batch, most likely a Kölsch and a Belgian Golden Strong - recipes are to be confirmed, so if you would like to contribute one (especially for the Belgian) let us know!
Come on down and help us make some beer, drink some beer, talk about beer and have an all-round excellent time!
We'll have four of...

Hi
Just received one of these MaltMuncher grain mills off trade me of all places
Fantastic price delivered from Oz all in $135 NZD.
Its actually a Keg King Maltmuncher No 5441.
Looks pretty Kosher hopefully mount to some mdf for the weekend to try out a Ruddles County style brew.
Have they fallen off the back of a lorry that's quite a saving.
Regards
TT

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A bit of an update on my Mash Master Mini Mill. Theres a thread on AHB about the knurling on the MKII rollers getting dull. I got my mill in August 2014 and without experience didnt notice a problm at first. My last brew took 45 mins to crush 9kg of grain and that was with me pushing down the hopper with bit of 2x4. There was heaps of flour and the mash was dough ball city. Even with BIAB.

If you have been reading on AHB youll know the story. MM have brought out MkIII which has fluted rollers....

Wasn't sure where to post this :scratch:. As good a place as any I suppose :).

How to Speak Australians - Season 1
Excellent Comedy by Aussie Indians.
(International Viewers: Try Episode 4 first.)
This is as good as beer!!!!! Not sure if our international audience will find this anywhere near as funny as Aussies (original, old or new) will.

Episode 1: G'Day Knackers - An introduction to the Australian vernacular, with particular emphasis on their penchant for expletives and derogatory...

Hi all,
Purchased this a few years ago, have never had time to use it,
its up for grabs
it was modified by Morebeer to accept 1/2 fittings as opposed to the barb fittings they come with
(looks like they started selling these in this configuration since)

Single level brewstand,
solid as a rock,
heatshield for burner, fits 100L pot
clamp for marchpump
lockable castors, (they cost $150 I think)
Currently has 3 ring burner with Medium pressure reg fitted,
which can be removed or negotiated.
pick up only from Bicton, (near Fremantle)
$150 ono

Any suggestions for a Melbourne based good place to get milled grains and hops and I'm even after a biab bag as well?

Thanks

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Grain and Grape are great but have a slightly limited range but plenty of variety for different beers. If you like Gladfield (NZ) malt then their Australian distributor onclick= window.open(this.href);return false; is in Footscray so you can get them a little bit cheaper. in Heidelberg West have just about every grain available in Australia. They are online only but have pickup. Im sure there's more but alot are just kit and kilo unfortunately.

Royal Perth Beer Show - 2015
For we W.A. Amateurs, this event has become a great social event. Basically, if you enter one beer ($20) in this comp, you get two tickets to attend the tasting on Saturday 1st August (1pm to 4pm and then we kick on after). At the tasting you get to taste all the amateur and craft and commercial beers. It is great fun and no other beer comp does that!!!

As for judging of amateur beers, the committee has apparently listened to feedback and so we can expect more...

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haha I always miss out on the after session :(

its only a 10min drive into Freo from Claremont? I could see Case was merry but not that bad lol.

many nice beers drank but thought the Brown Ale was a really nice beer, cant recall the brewer? case would remember or maybe not haha.

Case - Did you try that Alt beer by Last Drop? i went into the Last Drop for a pint, nice beer!

I think this will be handy when searching on here should you end up in a new town/city, or should you be on holidays and fancy a beer swap. I just drove down to Bundaberg and if I knew of other brewers along the way I would have taken beers along for possible beer swaps which would have been fun.

If this has been done before, apologies as I missed it (don't shoot me Pat) :shoot: :sad:

Gday beer4, I've been using a cheapy $100 44 litre electric urn for just over a year now, knocked out 19 before the element died. Compared to a $300 Crownie, that's about five bucks a brew, so I got another one :)
Slowly accumulating more stuff like a mill, grain & hops bulk buys, yeast stepping & temp control. Just got a real cheap fridge & a chest freezer, a keg & gas. Yep, sure is a great time & cost saver this home brew caper ;)
There's also a couple of brew clubs, Lonnie & Hobart, with a...

due to being Polish and a brewer I've managed to acquire several varieties of Polish hop varieties which are completely unavailable in Australia. A relative recently visited Poland and I got her to bring me back about 4.5kg of hop pellets (900g each of 5 varieties). This is too much for me to use by myself, so have since sold 3kg (600g of 5 varieities). So I still have 300g x 5 varieties of hops for my own use I can still sell possibly 100g of each variety.

so Polish hop varieities i have:
*...

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long long shot being 2 1/2 yrs later but do you have any freshish polish hops at the moment? Looking at brewing a gräzer next month.

Who's up for a few Xmas beers this Thursday at Hart's Pub at the Rocks in Sydney at 6pm? EDIT: We are currently thinking of a different venue so please check Post #4.

I love meeting up with Sydney brewers. All of them are great fun. I have computers blowing up (and my brain) so can't wait to fly in on Thursday and meet some new brewers plus my favourite 'old' ones whom I better ring tomorrow :think:.

stoutgirl5 started this tradition at Harts so I'll see if she can organise a table...

For us Amateurs, this event has become a great social event (more comments on the educational side later.) Basically, if you put in one beer ($20) you get two tickets to attend the tasting on Saturday 25th October (1pm to 4pm and then we kick on after). At the tasting you get to taste all the amateur and craft and commercial beers. It is great fun and no other beer comp does that!!!

As for judging for amateurs, this comp, every year is more and more ignoring...

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Just had a few beers with sinkas in Freo. Excellent as always. The judge picked up the diacetyl that Sinkas found in my beer so nice picking sinkas!

Got my results back and scored 16 out of 20 but official results were 14.6 or something. What I thihnk is going on is one judge is doing each section but they are then scaling that judges results against the other judges. In the olden days (four years ago). I used to get three or four judges sheets back for every beer I put in. Now, we just get...

I havent made a brew yet.
Im still researching BIAB and not sure what i would like to make.
I was wondering if there was anyone in or near Canberra ACT to give me a quick tutorial with there BIAB,Ive read alot but would li,ke to see what actualy happens.
May be a out there question but i would really like to learn properly.

THANKS.

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Hey all, just thought I'd put this out here, as some of you might find it of interest.

I emailed Colin from Brew Your own at Home, i Kambah a week or so ago, and he mentioned to me that they're conducting a BIAB demo at the shop at 10.00 on Sunday the 16th November. A bloke by the name of Damon Young is doing it and will bring along some beer made by that method. It’s free and there’s no need to book.

I was planning on being all over this like but unfortunately,. it looks like I will have...

25th to the 1st of Nov,
lots more event in the city this year,for all the northeners
get down to some events dewds.

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[I'm still laughing at your other post on Better Bottles creating a short and painful piece of performance art when used with hot wort :lol:]

Great thread mate. NME has just posted the following in the show thread... Just saw this: Feral Fest at Perth Urban Orchard from 5pm to Midnight. so if anyone can't make the Royal Perth Beer Show tasting and wants to join us there, good stuff!

My son has just started a 3 year contract at NSW university and is just settling in.

He has shown interest in home brewing while he is there, first with kits and then moving onto BIAB once he is comfortable with the basics.

I have looked online and found Daves brew store who will supply a starter kit and deliver it (he has no transport yet). Does anyone have any preferred suppliers who offer a similar service or any helpful advice to help him on...

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Where is he living? If he's Inner West then he'd be as well off contacting ESB brewing at Peakhurst. Dave is good and helpful as well.

Marks Home Brew doesn't do fresh wort kits, but for general freight they are in a good freight zone for Sydney using Fastway Couriers, and I know that Mark does sell a heap to Sydney brewers.

For smaller orders under 3 kg such as yeasts, hops and specialty grains Craftbrewer in Brisbane deliver just as cheaply to me here near Taree as when I lived in...

Thursday nights at Harts Pub we have an unofficial beer club, Its just been me lately and im getting a bit tired of talking beer to myself. :interesting:

If anyone is around the area and would like to catch up and talk brewing, you would be saving my sanity. :headhit:

Bek

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Hey folks,

I'm new to sydney (from canada) and just got in to brewing. Any clubs or meet ups around the city? I joined the ISB google group, but I'm always interested in meeting the like-minded. (I'd also like to have some of my beers interrogated)

Just thought I'd say hi from NZ and wondered how many other NZ BIABers there are on here.

Has anyone got any experience with Gladfield Malt? My local store has most of their grain in, so plan on making an ale using their Toffee malt on top of a base with additional Rye for body and head retention. This would be my first attempt at BIAB (and won't get chance until the first weekend in Feb).

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Hi, another kiwi BIABer here, although a pretty new one - only 2 under my belt so far.

I can't really compare Gladfields to other grains, being new to AG/BIAB. Interested to hear what others have to say.

Ok, so this is a prequel to the Perth Beer Show. Bring your swap beer on the day (hopefully the one that you are entering into the show).

For those that haven't done a swap before it goes like this. You put your name on the list below. On the day you bring 2 x 700ml PET bottles for every other person on the swap list below. We will stop the list at 10 (if we manage to get that much interest), so you arrive with 18 bottles of your beer and you leave with hopefully 18 examples of best in class...

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gday guys, Ive been off line for almost 2 weeks due to internet problems. Just back on yesterday. Ive also been a slack bastard on my tastings so you're all owed at least one evaluation form from me.

this also includes a Home brew competition , centered aroudn the Sail and Anchor

Cheers

Case

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Looks like I missed the beer fault night on Tuesday but was forced to fly back from Sydney with Jetstar so would have been too tired to attend anyway :smoke:.

Sinkas, I have my ticket for tomorrow night's 'Tasting of the Barrels' at the Sail. Do we have a loyalty card for, Nick's Kebabs? I can never remember eating there but surely we must have something by now?

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